Michael Webster,

Acknowledgments flute Intrada - John Weston, engineer Futura Productions, Boston, October 8, 2007 clarinet Sonata for Clarinet and Piano - John Weston, engineer Leone Buyse, Futura Productions, Boston, August 18 and 19, 2014 Morceau de Concours - John Weston, engineer Futura Productions, Boston, April 27, 2014 Three Etudes - Michael Culler, engineer College of Fine Arts, , December 18, 2013 Sonata No. 2 for Flute and Piano - John Weston, engineer Futura Productions, Boston, October 8, 2007 Martin Amlin Trio Sonatina - Brad Michel, engineer Clarion Productions, Boston, October 14, 2002 Music for Flute, Clarinet & Piano

All works available from Theodore Presser Company. Cover art: Excerpts from Elemental Stars (Fire, Air, Earth, Water), © 2013 Phil Webster. All rights reserved. www.philwebsterdesign.com Martin Amlin, flute

WWW.ALBANYRECORDS.COM TROY1567 ALBANY RECORDS U.S. 915 BROADWAY, ALBANY, NY 12207 TEL: 518.436.8814 FAX: 518.436.0643 ALBANY RECORDS U.K. BOX 137, KENDAL, CUMBRIA LA8 0XD piano TEL: 01539 824008 © 2015 ALBANY RECORDS MADE IN THE USA DDD WARNING: COPYRIGHT SUBSISTS IN ALL RECORDINGS ISSUED UNDER THIS LABEL. , The Composer Composer and pianist Martin Amlin has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Tanglewood Music Center, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the Massachusetts Artists Foundation, the St. Botolph Club Foundation, and the Massachusetts Council for the Arts. He was a recipient of an ASCAP Grant to Young Composers and has received numerous ASCAP Plus Awards. He has been a resident at Yaddo, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the MacDowell Colony, where he was named a Norlin Fellow. His compositions have been performed throughout the world and are published by the Theodore Presser Company.

Martin Amlin studied with Nadia Boulanger at the Ecoles d’Art Américaines in Fontainebleau and the Ecole Normale de Musique in Paris. He received masters and doctoral degrees as well as the Performer’s Certificate from the Eastman School of Music, where he studied piano with Frank Glazer and composition with Joseph Schwantner, Samuel Adler, and Warren Benson. Formerly an instructor at the Phillips Exeter Academy and an Affiliate Artist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he is currently Professor of Music and Chair of the Composition and Theory Department in the College of Fine Arts at Boston University. He is also Director of the Boston University Tanglewood Institute Young Artists Composition Program. He is a rehearsal pianist for the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and the Boston Pops Orchestra, and has appeared as soloist with the Boston Pops on several occasions in performances of Mendelssohn’s Piano Concerto No.1 and Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. He has performed on the FleetBoston Celebrity Series and has been pianist for the M.I.T. Experimental Music Studio and the New England Ragtime Ensemble. He has appeared live on Boston’s WGBH radio station as both performer and composer, and has given premieres of many new pieces, including works by Lukas Foss, Marco Stroppa, Stefan Kaske, Armand Qualliotine, and George Perle.

Martin Amlin has recorded for the Albany, Ashmont Music, Centaur, Crystal, Hyperion, Koch International, MSR Classics, and Wergo labels. The Music All of the works on this disc evidence the hallmarks of Martin Amlin’s style: a facile flow of elaborate Three Etudes on Intervals is from a larger set of piano pieces based on musical intervals. Thirds was rhythms; a harmonic language rich with the notes which comprise seventh chords, particularly written in Paris in 1973, Fifths in Boston in 1979, and Tenths was composed in Aspen in 1976. Each the major seventh sonority; a non-strict usage of tone rows; an honoring of the past through etude’s particular interval is the compositional material that permeates the piece, and the “study” is recognizable formal structure and thematic evolution; and a French sensibility that might be less one of any particular piano technique and more an exploration of each interval. described as neo-impressionistic. Sonata No. 2 for Flute and Piano was commissioned by the Chicago Flute Club in 2004. The same Intrada was written for Leone Buyse and Fenwick Smith to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the tetrachord (0,1,5,8) used in Intrada is also used throughout this sonata. The symmetrical nature of Greater Boston Flute Association. The piece is loosely in two parts, the second part being a freely these four pitches is mirrored in various levels of symmetry throughout the piece. The first movement expanded variation of the first. A four-note pitch-class set (0,1,5,8), also recognizable as a major is essentially a modified sonata-allegro form. The second movement is a kind of hybrid, with its seventh chord, is the source of most of the melodic and harmonic material for the piece. The quiet introduction evolving into a moto perpetuo that is the main body of the movement. character and spirit of Intrada reflect the celebratory nature of this GBFA anniversary event in 2003. Trio Sonatina was written in 1991 for the Webster Trio and dedicated to Leone Buyse and Michael Sonata for Clarinet and Piano was written for Michael Webster in 2001 and is in four interrelated Webster. Its four concise movements have a rich palette of color, rhythm and counterpoint. Rhapsody movements. The first follows a rather traditional sonata-allegro form, but with returning themes opens with a bold theme in parallel fourths that lend a striking combination of modernism and constantly varied. The leaping first theme becomes a motto that binds the four movements together. medievalism. Canonic treatment and fluid metric modulations abound. Scherzo combines Amlin’s The second movement is in the form of a rondo with a nod to Mozart, quoting his clarinet concerto. predilection for the sound of the major seventh chord with a twelve-tone row passed among the three The third (Solfeggietto) is another sort of homage, this time to the well-known piece of the same instruments in the first measure and throughout the movement. Interlude returns to parallel fourths name by C.P.E. Bach. Ever playful, Amlin creates a breathless feeling with consecutive measures and fifths and evolves into a lopsided waltz with an elongated third beat. Aria combines lyricism and of 6, 5, 4, and 3 rapid notes. The final movement develops material from the first, with the original drama, ending nostalgically. motto proclaiming a triumphant conclusion. —Martin Amlin & Michael Webster

Morceau de Concours was commissioned for the 1987 James Pappoutsakis Memorial Flute Competition. The piece is a reference to the many works written over the years at the Paris Conservatory for students who take part in performance competitions. The piece uses the entire range of the flute in both expressive and virtuosic ways. The Performers Leone Buyse is the Mullen Professor of Flute at ’s Shepherd Webster has performed and taught all over the United States and in Canada, Central and South School of Music in Houston, Texas. Previously a principal flutist of the America, Europe, Japan, China, New Zealand, and Australia. He has been Artistic Director of chamber Boston Symphony and Boston Pops and member of the San Francisco music societies in Rochester and Ann Arbor and has served on the clarinet and conducting faculties Symphony and the Rochester Philharmonic, she has appeared as soloist of Eastman, New England Conservatory, and the . Webster has recorded for with those orchestras and also with the Utah Symphony, l’Orchestre de la Arabesque, Albany, Beauport, Bridge, Camerata, Centaur, C.R.I., Crystal, and Nami. As composer and Suisse Romande, Xalapa Symphony, and the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional arranger, Webster is published by International, G. Schirmer, and Schott. He is the founder/director of Mexico. She has performed with the Boston Symphony Chamber Players of the Clarinetopia seminar and writes the column “Teaching Clarinet” for The Clarinet magazine. throughout Europe and Japan, with the Tokyo, Juilliard, Brentano, and A Buffet Artist-Clinician, Webster plays Buffet clarinets exclusively. Muir String Quartets, and in recital with and Yo-Yo Ma. A renowned educator, she has taught at the New England Conservatory, Fenwick Smith’s Boston-based performing career began in 1975 when he Boston University, the University of Michigan, and the Aspen, Sarasota, joined the contemporary-music ensemble Boston Musica Viva and the and Norfolk music festivals, and has presented recitals and master classes across the United States New England Woodwind Quintet. He served as second flutist of the Boston and in Canada, Mexico, Panama, Chile, Brazil, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Symphony from 1978 until his retirement in 2006 and was equally active Japan, Australia, and New Zealand. Her solo recordings are available on the Crystal, Boston Records, as a recitalist, recording artist, and long-time member of the Boston Albany and C.R.I. labels. In 2010 Ms. Buyse received the National Flute Association’s Lifetime Chamber Music Society. As a concerto soloist Fenwick Smith introduced to Achievement Award in recognition of outstanding contributions to the flute community worldwide. Boston audiences Lukas Foss’s Renaissance Concerto and concertos of John Harbison and Christopher Rouse. A dedicated teacher, he inspired decades of students at the New England Conservatory, where he taught Michael Webster is Professor of Music at Rice University’s Shepherd for more than 30 years. In 2010 Mr. Smith was honored with a Lifetime School of Music and Artistic Director of the award-winning Houston Youth Achievement Award from the National Flute Association. Symphony. Formerly principal clarinetist with the Rochester Philharmonic and San Francisco Symphony, he has appeared with the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Boston Pops, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the 92nd Street Y, the Tokyo, Cleveland, Muir, Ying, Enso, and Dover String Quartets, Da Camera, Context, Musiqa, and the festivals of Marlboro, Santa Fe, Chamber Music Northwest, Norfolk, Victoria, Stratford, Domaine Forget, Angel Fire, Steamboat, Park City, Sitka, Skaneateles, Bowdoin, and Orcas Island. Martin Amlin

1 Intrada for two flutes & piano [3:50] Three Etudes on Intervals for piano solo Leone Buyse, flute 7 Thirds [2:48] Fenwick Smith, flute TROY1567 8 Fifths [5:00] Martin Amlin, piano 9 Tenths [5:03] Music for Flute, Clarinet & Piano Sonata for Clarinet & Piano Martin Amlin, piano Martin Amlin 2 Dialogue [5:29] Sonata No. 2 for Flute & Piano 3 [ ] Homage 4:17 10 Molto moderato [6:48] 4 [ ] Solfeggietto 3:34 11 Adagio expressivo — Allegro perpetuo [6:42] 5 Finale [4:25] Leone Buyse, flute

Michael Webster, clarinet Martin Amlin, piano Martin Amlin, piano Trio Sonatina 6 [ ] Morceau de Concours for flute & piano 5:54 12 Rhapsody [3:02] Leone Buyse, flute 13 Scherzo [2:45] Martin Amlin, piano 14 [ ] Interlude 2:00 15 Aria [3:59] Leone Buyse, flute

Michael Webster, clarinet

Martin Amlin, piano Total Time = 65:44

Music for Flute, Clarinet & Piano

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